What is 1.04922 as a fraction?

Answer: 1.04922 as a fraction equals 104922/100000 or 52461/50000

Here is the solution for converting 1.04922 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 1.04922 as  

Step 2:

Next, we multiply both the numerator and denominator by 10 for each digit after the decimal point. Remember the numerator is the top part of the fraction and the denominator is the bottom part!

1.04922/1

  =  

1.04922 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

104922/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 104922 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 104922 are: 1  2  3  6  9  18  27  29  54  58  67  87  134  174  201  261  402  522  603  783  1206  1566  1809  1943  3618  3886  5829  11658  17487  34974  52461  104922 
The factors of 100000 are: 1  2  4  5  8  10  16  20  25  32  40  50  80  100  125  160  200  250  400  500  625  800  1000  1250  2000  2500  3125  4000  5000  6250  10000  12500  20000  25000  50000  100000 
So for 104922 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 2

Step 4:

For the last step we reduce the fraction. This just means writing the fraction in the simplest way. To do this we divide both the numerator and denominator by the GCF value we determined in step 3.

104922/100000

  =  

104922 ÷ 2/100000 ÷ 2

  =  

52461/50000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 1.04922 as a fraction.